单词 | pawnee pict |
释义 | Pawnee Pictn. Now historical and rare. A member of the Wichita North American Indian people, esp. of the bands formerly inhabiting the Red River valley of Oklahoma and Texas. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Pawnee confederacy > members Pawnee1698 Pawnee Maha1698 Pawnee1770 Republican Pawnee1797 Pawnee Pict1805 Pawnee Loup1806 Pawnee Republican1806 Skidi1823 Pawnee Republic1836 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 490 The Pania, Loups, Republican, Pania Pickey and Ricaras Speake the Same language. 1806 Z. M. Pike Jrnls. (1966) ii. 158 Whether greater danger is not to be apprehended from the Pawnee Pickées, than any other Nation of Savages in Louisiana. 1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies ii. 305 The Wacos, Wichitas and their kindred tribes on Red River..are chiefly remarkable for their profuse tattooing, whereby they have sometimes acquired the title of ‘Pawnee Picts’. 1864 C. de W. Brownell Indian Races N. & S. Amer. 550 The Pawnee Picts, living about the extreme head-waters of the Red River, on the borders of the Rocky Mountains, inhabit wigwams of poles thatched with prairie grass, of very picturesque form and arrangement. 1870 L. H. Morgan Syst. Consanguinity ii. iii. 195 They have sometimes been called the Pawnee-Picts, from their habit of ‘profuse tattooing’. 1916 J. B. Thoburn Stand. Hist. Oklahoma I. 124 The confusion of the two tribes was doubtless due to the French traders and trappers, who called the Wichitas ‘Pawnee Piques’, i.e. ‘Tattooed Pawnees’, hence the corrupted American term, Pawnee Pict. 1953 R. Taft Artists & Illustrators of Old West i. 9 Four of these visitors, two Pawnee Pict chiefs and the wife and child of one of them, were among Stanley's early subjects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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